How good is your bangla/sylheti?

[anisa22]

Mine is pretty sh!te really.

We had rellies round at the weekend, and i realised that ive forgotten how to speak bangla properly.

pretty damned sad if you ask me. my first language was sylheti and i had an asian accent til i was halfway through primary school! i havnt really spoken it much since dad died either, cos he was the only one i spoke bangla to. looks like ive forgotten a lot on a year .... plus ive always had a problem in that i cant roll my r's properly, and you need to do that a lot to pronounce things properly, dont you.

i can hear the right words in my head, but when they come out of my mouth they are all muddled. why is that?

and you can pretty much guarantee that when you say something stoopid, one of your mean rellies is gonna be there to take the piss out of you (forever)

..... perhaps all i need is a bit of confidence.

does anyone else have the same problem?

[scrumpy_chip]

Ya Allah gho bhoin!! tumi boosi bangla matha booli gheso??

sinta khoriyo nah gho bhoin, ami asi tumareh shayjo khormu neh. zeetah tumi faronah khoytai, amareh zeekayo, ami khoya deemu neh

LOL im only kidding. Looking at that, i dont think my bangla is that good either!!

[SNOOP_KUTHA]

i dont think my bengali's that good either, i cant hold a good conversation in bengali as i can in english


i think the main problem is....you know the way we arrange english words in a sentence....i arrange the bengali equivalents in that order to and thats why it comes out rong but that was more before..now my bengali's ok


say for example urmm


wot are you doing?...

kita tui khoros


u get wot im sayin? it sounds dylexic

[SHYLETTI-GUNDAH-BYSAB]

srcumpy chip man couldnt you think of another nickname lol

[scrumpy_chip]

Originally posted by SHYLETTI-GUNDAH-BYSAB
srcumpy chip man couldnt you think of another nickname lol

Come on man!! all I could think of at the time was chips!! so had to have it in my username

Although it probably does give out connotations of me being a big fat potatoe

[SHYLETTI-GUNDAH-BYSAB]

lol scrumpy-chips where you from bro.man you sound mad.i used to be mad one time but ive quit cos of toomany complaints

[Star]

How good is everyone's Shuddo-Basha? understanding shouldn't be a problem for any of us, unless it's trying to understand the literal Bangla - but the opportunity to speak it is not there for most.


Mine's poor - but i do have the chance to give it a go -coz i have a close friend from Calcutta, and he seems to understand me - somehow - and never points out the faults, thereby my confidence isn't damaged.


I think amongst the Sylheti community in general it's not as good as it could be - because we can get by without speaking it... there doesn't seem to be enough intermixing between Sylheti and Non-Sylheti's which would have helped broaden our linguistic skills.